Acting
David Threlfall
Born in Burnage, Manchester in 1953, David Threlfall is a celebrated actor of stage, film and television. In the latter, he is perhaps best known as the feckless Frank Gallagher in Channel 4's Shameless. In 1994 whilst working on a production of The Count of Monte Cristo at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, Threlfall met Bosnian actress Brana Bajic and the pair subsequently married a year later.
Titles
Play for Today
1970
Have I Got News for You
1990
Spooks
2002
Shameless
2004
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
Screen Two
1985
Playhouse
1974
Ripper Street
2012
ScreenPlay
1986
Celebrity Mastermind
2003
Hot Fuzz
2007
Troy: Fall of a City
2018
Urban Myths
2017
The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
2024
Art That Made Us
2022
Cutting It
2002
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2003
Patriot Games
1992
Paradise Postponed
1986
Nightsleeper
2024
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006
Funny Woman
2023
Black Sea
2014
Code of a Killer
2015
What Remains
2013
Nowhere Boy
2009
Conspiracy
2001
A Dinner of Herbs
2000
In the Beginning
2000
The Death of Bunny Munro
2025
Passenger
2024
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1982
Like Minds
2006
The Russia House
1990
Wolfe
2021